On March 26, the IOC published a document outlining its new policies regarding the participation of transgender women in Olympic competitions. These new regulations will apply starting with the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028 and are not retroactive. The [...]

The case of Fox Varian, who was awarded $2 million in damages after suing the doctors who facilitated her gender transition while she was a minor, reopens the debate about the lack of rigor in dysphoria diagnoses and the irreversibility [...]

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has amended its rules to align with the executive order signed by President Donald Trump in February, which bans transgender women from participating in women’s sports competitions. The new “Athlete Safety” regulations [...]

More and more countries are rectifying their procedures for dealing with gender dysphoria when it comes to providing hormone blockers to people at an early age. Puberty blockers are used in minors with gender dysphoria to stop or delay the [...]

An article published in Medscape discusses the policies recently adopted in different European countries regarding the management of gender dysphoria in minors. These policies are mostly being redirected towards a more psychologically supportive approach and warn of the dangers of [...]

American swimmer Lia Thomas, who became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA title in the 500-yard final in March 2022, has lost her lawsuit against World Aquatics (WA). Thomas decided to begin legal action in January 2024 against [...]

The approach to cases of gender dysphoria or incongruence, in which the individual does not identify with his or her biological sex, has promoted various treatment strategies. Predominantly those that resort to pharmacological therapies – hormonal blocking and transition – [...]

National Health Service (NHS) England has announced that it will stop prescribing puberty blockers in its clinics for children who wish to change their sex. The so-called puberty blockers, which stop the appearance of the characteristic physiological changes in the [...]

Stanford researchers have developed a new AI model that can identify different brain functional connectivities depending on sex. The study, published in PNAS on February 20, helps resolve whether sex-related differences exist in the human brain and suggests that understanding [...]

This is not the first time that we have treated in our Observatory the case of transsexual people who, after undergoing gender transition treatment, regret having done so. Unfortunately, there are more and more of them. According to the Daily [...]

World Athletics Federation banned trans women from competing in women’s competitions on March 31, 2023, thus excluding transgender athletes who had passed male puberty before participating in women’s competitions in the world rankings. Regarding DSD (Disorders of Sex Development) athletes, [...]

The limitations on the interventions of trans people to protect minors from procedures that are harmful to their health continue to increase. Now it is in the US state of Missouri where they have announced a series of measures to [...]